The Canby Book Club will be reading Christmas at the Amish Market by Shelley Shepard Gray and meet to discuss it on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 10:30 a.m. in the library.
Kid’s Bingo will be on Thursday, Nov.14, at 3:30 p.m.
There are several new items this week.
Adult Fiction:
Tues., Nov. 12 - Chili, corn and fruited angel food cake
Wed., Nov. 13 - Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, cauliflower and pudding
Thurs., Nov. 14 - Potato soup, ham sandwich, fruit cocktail and cookie
Thanks to Al Saltee for taking a week off so I can insert this one-time guest column into his ongoing history series. For a while
During the Nov. 7 Red Cross bloodmobile at the Sanford Building, Tom McLain donated his 18th gallon of blood.
The November 7th and 8th bloodmobile exceeded of the goal of 100 units by four units.
There were 91 potential donors with eight deferrals, two incompletes, and three no-shows for a total of 104 units collected with the Power Red cell units.
First-time donor: William Callens
Donors reaching gallon marks were :
Royal with his working dog, "Thunder" as they were about to begin a nightly patrol of their assigned post at Cam Ranh Bay Air Base.
We have been learning about Minneota’s Royal Hettling, who grew up on the family farm and graduated from Minneota High School in 1969. After enlisting in the Air Force and training as a Security Police dog handler, he deployed to Vietnam in August 1970.
On Oct. 19, Kelton King and Hatti Kruse of the Gary Ridgers 4-H Club helped at turkey bingo at the Gary Legion. King and Kruse said it was really fun to watch all the people get really excited when they got Bingos. King also helped with the haunted house in Gary on Nov. 2.
Question: Every once in a while, I notice some vehicles stop in the road at the railroad tracks when nothing is coming. Can I pass them when they do this?
From Nov. 14, 1974 - Deer hunting was termed as good by area hunters and this was one of the reasons this group of men came in with six deer, which included four good bucks. The top one was 200 pounds, one weighed 190, 185 and 180. They were hunting about two miles north of Ray Fulls, west of Canby.
Stella’s Tow Truck - Certificate of Merit ballpoint pen drawing by Diane Swenson.
The 24th annual Juried Art Show was held at the Springfield Public Library starting Oct. 16 and will feature artwork through November 27.
Several local artists were featured including Diane Swenson with ballpoint pen art, Mary Swenson with photography, and Angie Guptill with sculpture.
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